A while back I called Google Analytics "the most useless thing I have ever signed up for". That was when it first came out, froze a lot and made a lot of people unhappy.

Now, however, Craig has got me playing around with the thing and even though it really does not give me anything of use, it is fun to play with. Click on the image to the upper right. It shows how I can break down Shaw Communications network users by City. I now know that there is Stentor National Integrated Communications Network readers in Nova Scotia at Milton Station (36 visits last week) and Mount Uniacke (6 visits).

This is cool but - if you in Mount Uniacke are not going to post - somewhat useless. It is like watching you watch me as opposed to talking. I feel exposed...on display...ok, any blogger who feels that would be a bigger weirdo that the average weirdo blogger but you get the point. OK, now the cross-referencing by geolocation, shown to the left, reminds me that Milton Station is actually in PEI. I had forgotten that. And that I have a reader or readers in Montreal who checked in 11 times today so far. And someone who came to the A Good Beer Blog via Tiscali UK Ltd in Milton Keynes who checked in 11 times last week. And someone at Syracuse University who read 16 pages of the beer blog during one visit last week - was it Brendan Carney?

But what do I make of that information?